LAB the Podcast

LAB the Podcast is a Christian conversation series shaped by art, craft, and attention. It does not treat beauty as decoration. It treats beauty as a way of noticing truth, goodness, longing, and the limits of human striving. One episode follows Corey Miller through culinary formation, restaurant work, hospitality, and the pleasure of feeding people well. The conversation is concrete: oysters, James Beard restaurants, Tampa dining, and the heartbreak of asking a meal to carry more meaning than it can bear. Another recurring lane is poetry. With Wendy Kiefer, the show slows down around Robert Frost and the practice of reading as a spiritual and artistic act. These episodes have an unhurried classroom feeling, but the classroom has windows open to retreat, family, weather, memory, and church life. Sacred art receives the same patient treatment. Sasha Phillips' episode connects iconography, family inheritance, Russia, Armenia, faith under pressure, displacement, and the hope carried by works like Madonna dell'Armenia. The show is especially interested in art that survives loss. It is also interested in art that forms communities across generations. The Sacred Heart Catholic Church episode turns a walk through downtown Tampa into a lesson in architecture, stained glass, patronage, symbolism, and prayerful space. Beryl Biles gives the building a human guide, and the host follows the details rather than rushing past them. Michael Barna's conversation brings the same ideas into domestic life, with art collecting, frames, piano, high church liturgy, and the making of a beautiful home. Across episodes, LAB the Podcast favors reverence over hot takes. It has warmth, but it also has a clear thesis: beauty belongs in kitchens, churches, galleries, homes, poems, and ordinary practice. Listeners hear Christian faith discussed through meals, rooms, images, music, travel, and vocation. The result is reflective and aesthetically minded, grounded in the conviction that art can help people pay attention to what is good and true.